Best Fallout Antagonist?

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This poll lacks Robert Edwin House, who is in my opinion one of the best characters in the Fallout universe.

He's not a strict antagonist, in fact I think his ending is the best option for New Vegas - his actions and character are too complex to be defined as a simple antagonist. This kind of depth of character is missing from Fallout 4.

He is an incredibly interesting character and it's a testament to the great writing of Obsidian to create a world that transcends simple right and wrong, a game world that treats its players a bit more like adults and whose major characters are not simple cliches and stereotypes like the deplorably simple characters of Fallout 4.

Unfortunately Fallout 4 took the opposite approach and the most complexity you're going to get out of that game is Elder Maxson frothing at the mouth "SYNTHS BAD HURR DURR"

New Vegas wasn't about antagonists and protagonists so much as having your character brought into a major political and economic struggle going on between major players in New Vegas and Hoover damn.

I think Caesar is a great antagonist as well, although he too transcends this characterization.
 
Irwin John Finster said:
This poll lacks Robert Edwin House, who is in my opinion one of the best characters in the Fallout universe.
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Well, this poll is about antagonists, so...

Irwin John Finster said:
He's not a strict antagonist, in fact I think his ending is the best option for New Vegas - his actions and character are too complex to be defined as a simple antagonist. This kind of depth of character is missing from Fallout 4.

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I think Caesar is a great antagonist as well, although he too transcends this characterization.
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I agreed with this. But now that I think about it, Caesar was easily painted in an antagonistic light due to how the entirety of the Mojave and the NCR saw him. To a lesser extent, the likes of Arcade Gannon and the most pro-NCR would also saw Mr. House as an antagonist, as evidenced by Cass's ending slides where she's not happy at all when you support Mr. House.
 
House isn't a main antagonist though, in three of the four endings you kill him before the climax and in the last one you side with him. If anything Caesar and Kimball (maybe Lanius and Oliver as well) are the main antagonists of NV, as they're the leaders of the two factions you battle against in the endgame.
 
Izak said:
House isn't a main antagonist though, in three of the four endings you kill him before the climax and in the last one you side with him. If anything Caesar and Kimball (maybe Lanius and Oliver as well) are the main antagonists of NV, as they're the leaders of the two factions you battle against in the endgame.
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What about Benny?
 
Izak said:
I'm not speaking for them or anything but Mr House, Legate Lanius, General Oliver, President Richardson and, the Lieutenant are all noticeably missing from the poll.
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Goddamn... I was trying to limit it to main antagonists but they certainly deserve their places here as Well... Including that brain from point lookout. And Dean domino.
 
The Calculator's from Tactics and Attis is from PoS; sorry if I spoiled anything, I've never played Tactics I just know who the main antagonist is.
 
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